Quotes from Bryant H. McGill

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.